The reason I went along with the database update was because it could solve the bug where post wouldn't go through if it had certain obscure unicode characters. The one who did teh update probably just wanted to create his R8 thread (>>64683) though...

I don't think emoji would ever actually get used on Heyuri enough that we would need to fiercely discuss about it. I suggest wait and seeing how/if they will get used on Heyuri first.

>or wordfiltering them to classic Japanese phone emoji icons, such as: https://emojipedia.org/softbank/2004/
This could be interesting to experiment with too